
From Lucrezia Borgia to Malinche to Marie Curie: Women’s contributions have often been downplayed or misrepresented in the history books. Duels of History (re)tells their stories.
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Air Date: 2023-08-30
Could the Spanish have conquered Mexico without the help of Malinche, a Native American slave who became Hernan Corté...
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How did Marie Curie's love affair with the married physicist Paul Langevin divide France? Jeanne Langevin, cheated on...
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Why does the figure of revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg continue to shine whilst Friedrich Ebert, Social Democr...
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How did communist activist Angela Davis become an icon in her relentless fight against Ronald Reagan, then Governor o...
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In 1913, Camille Claudel, one of the most acclaimed artists of her time, was committed to a psychiatric asylum for in...
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Did the sentencing to death of Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, enable...
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Why is Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, still viewed as a Machiavellian manipulator? By marrying into ...
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How did a simple tennis match between a woman, tennis star Billie Jean King, and a man, ex-player Bobby Riggs, become...
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Two thousand years after the fact, can we really say that Messalina and Agrippina, two empresses of Roman antiquity, ...
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Did Marie Antoinette betray her adopted country? The queen is said to be insensitive, arrogant, ready to do anything ...